The Step In Girlfriend

Chapter 4

"You don't want me to tell him all your little secrets?" I ask sweetly as we walk through the doors and back into the cold night, where loud music was being played somewhere in this huge garden. "Such as the time you asked me how to wrap the towel around your head after showering-" I start to say but he places his hand over my mouth before I could continue, yeah, he probably wouldn't want other people to hear that story.

"Yes, I want my boss to give me a promotion, but I don't want him to hear about the things I do in my private life" he whispers looking me in the eyes as he spoke, I smirk behind his hand as a man walking over catches Austin's eye.

"There you two are, I've been wondering when you were going to show up" a man's voice says from beside us, I turn my head to see a tall man with black hair walking over.

He wore a very smart looking suit, with many different gold rings on his fingers. Wrapped around his arm was a young woman, she looks me up and down suspiciously. Austin removes his hand from mouth moving it to wrap around my waist, if we weren’t in the situation, we are now I would probably pinch him!

"Traffic, we can't all race through" Austin jokes looking at this dude, who I'm gonna take a wild guess and say, this is his boss. "Here is Payton" he smiles now turning all the attention onto me, something I didn't like too much to be honest.

"How lovely to be in the presence of such a beautiful lady, such a shame Austin has already got to you, I'm Markus" he smiles taking my hand and placing a kiss on it, this just successfully makes me rather uncomfortable, the woman beside him sending me a dirty look as he went.

"It's lovely to meet you" I smile as he finally releases my hand from his grip, it immediately goes behind my back so he wouldn't feel the need to take it in his again.

"Your boyfriend is one of my best workers, you must be very proud of him" Markus smiles looking over at Austin as she spoke, I nod my head not liking the way Austin was being addressed as my boyfriend, but I guess that was to be expected.

"I couldn't do half the work if it wasn't for you pulling the strings" Austin laughs where I had to force myself not to roll my eyes, I guess we have a brown nose on our hands! No wonder he's getting a promotion.

"Austin, I need a quick word with you" Markus smiles pulling the girls hand from his arm, not that she wanted to let go that is.

Austin nods his head before turning to me, he holds my arms saying he wouldn't be long before following Markus away. Whatever they needed to talk about can't be said in front of us, maybe he didn't like Austin's joke after all? This left me and the girl who I still had no clue what her name actually was, she was stood there looking disgusted at me.

"Just so you know, Markus would never go for a girl like you" she spits out randomly, oh I understand now she's jealous!

"And just so you know, I don't care if he was interested in me, I'm happy with my own boyfriend" I spit right back at her, I wasn't having her thinking she can talk down to me like that, I'm not interested in Markus or Austin for that matter! "But I think it's clear to everyone that Markus isn't really into you either, I've been seeing the looks he's been sending to all the other women here, so I would enjoy it while it lasts" I smirk at her which does take her by surprise, she shakes her head before storming off and away into the party.

I smile to myself happy that I won that round, I wouldn't have allowed her to get one up on me. Now I was standing alone, this did give my eyes time to wonder as I look around the party. Austin and Markus were stood by a pillar having a conversation, Austin would look over every now and then to make sure I was still where I was when he left me. My eyes move from them and up to one of the balconies at the top, that was full to the brim with men in suits looking down at the party. I'm very good at picking up vibes from situations I'm in, but this one was giving me a totally different vibe.

The people stood on the balconies didn't look like they were really a part of this place, yes, they looked the part, but they didn't act it. It was as though they were just watching over the party, but watching over the party for what? I didn't want them to know I was looking at them, so turn my body away but my eyes were still on them. One answers a phone before running past the rest, someone's in a hurry!

The man soon appears at the bottom of the party but runs straight over to Markus and Austin, where he whispers something in Markus's ear. Whatever it was freaks Markus out, where he says one last thing to Austin before running out the party. This does just spark my interest more, what thing are these people running from? Austin soon appears beside me where he takes a look down at his watch, his face looking majorly panicked.

"Come on, let's go home" he says taking me by the arm and dragging me towards the house, rather quickly might I add.

"But we've literally just arrived" I tell him as he begins to push past everyone to make it over to the exit, I know he said he needed to talk to his boss, but I also thought he'd want to stay awhile.

"This was only a fly in visit" he says as we walk out the front door, we literally walked through ten minutes ago, why did I spend so much time getting ready if this was it?!

We walk past people who were walking into the venue, so the party is nowhere close to being over and we're already leaving? He rushes me over to his car opening the door for me, I thank him climbing in as he races around to his side not even putting his seatbelt on. The car roars to life where he reverses before speeding out of the courtyard and away, this making me panic on a whole different level.

"Austin what's going on?" I ask worried as he zips us around a corner the tyres screeching as we did so, he needs to put his seatbelt on!

As we round another corner, three black range rovers speed up the mountain road heading towards the party. What's happening?

"The police, Markus didn't get the right permits to hold that party, I wasn't about to get stopped by the police" he smiles as we get onto the main road, where he does seem to relax and finally put his seatbelt on. "Thanks again Payton, don't worry we don't have to tell Roman" he smiles from his seat, I just nod my head looking out the window at the passing cars.

I wouldn't even know what to tell Roman if he asked, I have no clue what just happened.

Chapter 6

Lying To Him

It was the morning after that weird party, Austin ordered us pizza where he would avoid any question I would ask about the party. If he was trying to be inconspicuous about the whole thing, he wasn't doing a great job by avoiding my questions. I don't know why but before Austin literally made us flee the scene, something was still standing out to me. Now I'm not one to categorise someone, but no one at that party last night looked like the type of people who would lay under cars all day and fix them. Again, I know people can dress up and make themselves look totally different, but it wasn't just that. The type of cars these people were driving! Now I admit, I'm not someone that's into cars or knows anything about them, but these cars looked expensive! I would have to save money for my entire life to afford to buy ones like that, I don't think they'd be able to buy those cars on their salaries.

But it's not only what those people looked like or the cars they were driving, but the way everyone were acting around each other. I just couldn't shake the uneasy feeling that I felt around the place, it's like those men on the balcony were looking over the party like it was some kind of play. That's all that was going around my head last night, what kind of stuff is Austin involved in?

I was now getting ready for the day; it was Saturday which meant I had a day off. I was sat doing my makeup while on FaceTime with Roman, who was lying in bed in his hotel room. He's in America right now, so the time differences are huge!

"Do you think the company are going to invest" I ask looking into the mirror making sure I blended my foundation correctly, there's been times when I made it look awful.

"I'm not too sure about those guys, the vibe I was getting from the meeting room was rather hostile" he sighs pulling the blanket up higher, I send him a little smile before looking back into the mirror. "Enough talking about me, how's everything going with you and Austin alone, the apartment isn't destroyed yet?" He asks with a smile, I roll my eyes, but my mind soon goes to the event that happened last night, one I obviously couldn't tell him about.

"Just the normal, Austin and I have actually been getting on" I smile getting ready to do my eye makeup, Austin and I are definitely getting on.

"I knew you two would one day, you just needed me out of the picture to see what great people you both are" he smiles as my bedroom door knocks, knowing it's only going to be Austin, I tell him he can come in. "Just the man I was talking about!" Roman exclaims as Austin appears at my bedroom door, who looked majorly taken back to see Roman’s face again.

"Hey Rom, what's up man?" He asks walking into the room and sitting down on my bed, I was hoping Roman wouldn't pick up on the change in Austin's mood, I definitely was!

"Works been crazy down here, which is why I haven't been able to ring until now" Roman tells him as I look around for my mascara, I somehow always manage to lose that in all my makeup things. "Payton's been telling me how you and she have finally started getting on, it took you guys long enough" Roman laughs while I take a slight look to Austin, he was sending me the same look.

"Yeah, Payton's really helped me these last few days" he smiles while I begin to pack all my makeup away, I hate lying to Roman, but I also know first-hand how he'll react if he finds out.

"Anyway, guys I better get going, I have to wake up early to make it in time for another meeting" Roman says getting comfy in bed as he went, it's like 2am where is he right now. "I'll ring again when I get the chance, you never know at the rate you two are going, maybe you'll be best friends by the time I ring" he laughs which I have to put a fake smile on, some people think we're more than that at the minute.